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The turn to biographical methods in social science : comparative issues and examples / / edited by Prue Chamberlayne, Joanna Bornat, and Tom Wengraf



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Titolo: The turn to biographical methods in social science : comparative issues and examples / / edited by Prue Chamberlayne, Joanna Bornat, and Tom Wengraf Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2000
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (365 p.)
Disciplina: 300/.7/2
Soggetto topico: Social sciences - Biographical methods
Social sciences - Research
Altri autori: ChamberlaynePrue  
BornatJoanna  
WengrafTom  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Introduction: the biographical turn; Issues of methodology and theory; Reflections on the biographical turn in social science; Biographical analysis: a 'German' school?; Case histories of families and social processes: enriching sociology; The vanishing point of resemblance: comparative welfare as philosophical anthropology; Biographical work and biographical structuring in present-day societies; Clinical hermeneutics: from the ontology of self to a case example
Uncovering the general from within the particular: from contingencies to typologies in the understanding of casesExamples of biographical methods in use; Biography, anxiety and the experience of locality; Texts in a changing context: reconstructing lives in East Germany; Situated selves, the coming-out genre and equivalent citizenship in narratives of HIV; Extreme right attitudes in the biographies of West German youth; The metamorphosis of habitus among East Germans; R
Sommario/riassunto: Biographical research methods have become a useful and popular tool for contemporary social scientists. This book combines an exploration of the historical and philosophical origins of this important field of qualitative research.
Titolo autorizzato: The turn to biographical methods in social science  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-134-58537-3
1-280-40377-2
0-203-46604-7
1-134-58538-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910172237303321
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Serie: Social research today.